Wee Iiumbly crave leave to ofer Our advice to your Excellency And Wee do accordingly advise and desire your Excy to transmit to tlie Right Hon^ie the Lords of Trade and Plantations a Coppy of tlie said Petition and the proceedings thereupon desiring their Lordships to obtain the opinion of his Majesties Learned Council on the subject matter of the said Petition and to Transmit the same to Your Excellency all w^h is nevertheless humbly submitted by. New York Sept. 17'h 1720 Your Excellencys

Most obedient humble Servants. A. Philipse R Walter

Gko. Clarke Caleb Heathcote

Era: Harison John Barberie.

DIFFICULTIES IN THE FRENCH CHURCH.

To his Excellency William Burnet Esq^ Captain General and Gouernor in Chiefe of the Provinces of New York New Jerses and Territories Thereon Depending in America and Vice Admiral of the same &« jj^ Council. -- The humble Petition of Several of the members of the French reformed Protestant Church in the City of New York in Behalf of themselves and others of their Brethren -- Sheweth

That tlie said Church is unhappyly divided by the fatal

consequences of a certain Instrument or writing made and

agreed vpon the 20th of September last by the present Consistory

thereof wlio vpon groundless assertions therein set forth haue

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discharged our worthy Minister Mr Louis Rou from the Exercise of his Ministerial function in the said Church and deprived him of all the benefits he should reap thereby --